The account balance display function in FI-CA enables you to access comprehensive account information about open, cleared, and statistical items, and about payments quickly.
The list type determines which type of line items are displayed (open items, cleared items, payments) and which types of statistical items should appear.
The line layout determines which fields are to be displayed.
The sort variant determines how the displayed line items are sorted.
Each line layout variant must either be defined as a Totals or a Line Item variant.
The totaling at document level can be useful for the summarized document display of items from several contracts, as well as for the due dates of an installment plan. This means that you can view a customer's total amount for every due date.
The Account Balance Display: Basic List shows all selected items with the selected fields and the determined sorting sequence.
The Account Balance Display: Basic Listshows hotspots, such as Receivables, Down Payments, Totals, Payment List, and Chronology.
The Account Balance Display: Basic List offers lots of additional functions:
Change line layout (add new fields, switch to list viewer)
Sort and find items and totals
View dunning history
View clearing history
View returns history
View interest supplement
View installment plan or source receivables
View master data (business partner, contract account)
Send account information
Create installment plan
Post a write-off
Post a deferral
For individual business partners whose contract accounts have a larger number of items, you can display the account balance from a previously selected set of items (a snapshot).
To do so, enter the relevant business partner in customizing.
To ensure that the account balance is up-to-date, you should update it at regular intervals.
When you call up the account balance display for a business partner and a snapshot exists for this partner, the system performs the following actions:
Imports the snapshot
Checks the current selection conditions
Displays the result in the list with information that the data is not up-to-date
If you're in a snapshot display, you can deactivate the snapshot from the menu via Account Balance → Current Status. The system then reads the current data.